Redeeming the true crime memoir
We're accustomed to think of criminals' autobiographies as tawdry cash-ins. But some also reward the reader.
Phew, Barnes & Noble will stock OJ Simpson
The bookseller has abandoned its moral stand, leaving buyers free to boycott this awful book on their own terms.
I was a ‘true crime’ addict
It maybe dismissed as being trash, but 'true crime' unflinchingly depicts the bleak lives of those within the American underclass.
Witherspoon lines up for controversial true-crime drama
Reese Witherspoon is to produce and possibly star in a film about the 1997 murder of high school student Reena Virk.
Why OJ Simpson’s book should not be banned
It may be 'the lowest point in American cultural history' but Simpson has a right to be heard.
Murdoch scraps OJ Simpson ‘confession’ show and offers apology to the bereaved
Rupert Murdoch has scrapped plans to publish and broadcast a 'hypothetical' account by OJ Simpson of how he might have murdered of his ex-wife. By Julian Borger in Washington.
Sleazy does it
Eric Alterman: OJ Simpson's new book is a sordid, self-serving, cash-seeking stunt - and the media will lap it up.
Booksellers should boycott OJ Simpson’s book
Regan books may have chosen to publish Simpson's "hypothetical" reconstruction of the murders of which he was acquitted, but that doesn't mean we have to buy it.
Hachette finds crime doesn’t pay
8am: Magazine publisher Hachette Filipacchi is expected to close its real-life title Crime Confidential after just four issues following disappointing sales. By Claire Cozens.
Crime: so much more fun when it’s made up …
Victoria Coren: The other day, I was chairing a Radio 4 chat show about the British interest in crime stories. We all love a bit of Poirot or Jane Tennison - but is this fun so innocent (I was intending to ask my three guests), given that we also love poring over the grisly details of real-life crime as well?
True crime
Fred Vargas is a highly successful French crime writer, but since she declared her support for an Italian author faced with extradition, her calls are monitored and she is followed by the intelligence services. She tells Jon Henley how life came to imitate art.
The flash of the knife: Ian Jack on The Journalist and the Murderer
Why do people talk to journalists? Is the interview a forum for betrayal? Ian Jack welcomes the reissue of a classic study which sheds light on the distorting mirror of the modern media